Title: Category parent problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Category parent problem

 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-problem/)
 * 1. Create a Category named “Foo”.
    2. Create a Category named “Barblat”. 3. Create
   a Category named “Testing” with a Category parent of “Foo”. 4. Create a Category
   named “Testing” with a Category parent of “Barblat”. You’ll be told “Category
   updated”, but that isn’t the case in the least bit. In fact, it looks as if the
   update goes off into lala land. More or less, visually, nothing seems to happen.
   Possibly some bad SQL? Also: could you folks please add an option somewhere to
   sort Categories by ID rather than by Name? I’m sure people want both methods,
   and I’d rather prefer Categories by sorted by ID number.

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-problem/#post-54535)
 * I don’t think any parent cat will show until it has a post.
    You can change the
   sorting function yourself directly in the files, but there is not a “button” 
   or “toggle” for it in the Admin Panel.
 *  [errorlevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/errorlevel/)
 * (@errorlevel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-problem/#post-54901)
 * Is this related to a problem that I’m having where if I have parent category 
   Foo with two subcategories Bar1 and Bar2, no categories get listed with the default
   index.php? Bar1 and Bar2 both have posts in them, however, Foo does not contain
   any posts and is just meant to be a container for Bar1 and Bar2.
 *  [miahz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miahz/)
 * (@miahz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-problem/#post-55073)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/3/5591](http://wordpress.org/support/3/5591)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [miahz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miahz/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-problem/#post-55073)
 * Status: not resolved

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